Useful links

We have found the following sites very helpful:

http://www.slowtrav.com/italy/instructions/

Provides a wealth of information about living in and traveling through Italy, including detailed instructions for daily living, supported by photographs. Covers a broad spectrum, from food shopping to operating washing machines, from making espresso, to catching a taxi, from using any kind of phone to going to the beach.

Photographs help prepare you for the unexpected.

Definitely worth visiting and revisiting

http://www.metrebus.it/ - http://infopoint.atac.roma.it/bw.asp?lingua=ENG (busses) - 

Provides door to door public transportation instructions within the city of Rome, with maps.  Click on the British flag for English version.

http://trenitalia.com/

Provides public transportation instructions For trains to get out of the city and within the city

http://www.tuttocitta.it/tc/home.jsp

Provides maps of the city of Rome, as well as door to door instructions for driving or walking.  In Italian.

Universities

http://www.aur.edu/

http://www.arkrome.it/

https://www.iesabroad.org/IES/Programs/Italy/Rome/rome.html

http://www.arcadia.edu/abroad/default.aspx?id=6881

Graphic design, internet sites

http://www.beya-creations.com